Yesterday I began the short book "How Fiction Works" by James Wood, a literary critic from the New Yorker magazine. This book, based soley on observations of fiction that Wood has in his own library, is a compact and lucid insight into how authors may or may not be successful. Covering topics like narration, detail, style, and mood, Wood provides examples from James, Nabokov, Joyce, DeLillo, and many other great authors. I anticipate further exploring some of the novels he discusses (this volume is probably worth it for the bibliography alone), as well as deepening my own skills and perceptions as a reader.
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